Hair-waving apparatus



. May 2?, 1924,. 1,495,639

F, R. MARCEL HAIR WAVING APPARATUS Filed Sept. 18, 1923 23Eaeets-Shaet '1 f I gvwmtoz ay 27, 1924. V 1,495,639

F. R. MARCEL HAI R WAVI-NG APPARATUS Filed Sept. 15. 1923 '2 Sklqota-Sfmfl. 2

Patented May 27, 1924.

UNITED STATES A FRANCOIS RENE MARCEL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HAIR-WAVING APPARATUS.

' 7 Application filed September 18, 1923. Serial No. 663,417.

To all whom'z't may concern.

8 Be it known. that I, FRANQOIS RENE:

MARcE'L, a citizen of the United States, and

a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Hair- Waving Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for producing what is generally called the permanent .wave in the humanhair. The object of my invention is to provide a permanent waving apparatus which will be compact and convenient and which may be folded'into com act form so that it may serve as a portab e apparatus to be carried'by a hairdresser or user, from one place to another. Heretofore, permanent waving machines for professional use have been made heavy and cumbersome so that they have constituted permanent equipment in beauty parlors and customers have had to go to the beauty parlors to receive a permanent wave.

With the'presen't apparatus a hairdresser may carry the device with her and serve the customers in their own homes or other places convenient to the customer or she may even circuit various small towns and outlying places which do not have beauty parlors and apply the treatment at such places. The present device is therefore made foldable, light and at the same time it is inexpensive.

In the drawings forming part of this application,

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved device, showing only part of a complete set of heaters, I Y

Figure 2 is a plan view thereof, and Figure 3 is a side view of the apparatus showing it folded or collapsed for convenient carrying. The present device comprises essentially a framefor supporting the parts in an'el'evated' position, a" number of heaters with their lead wires, and suitable electrical sockets. I also provide a bracket for conveniencein hanging theframe on a door or other supportsuch .as may be found in the customers home Ihaveshown a pair of'insulating blocks l'bolted or otherwise secured together and these are, of well known make having been used; for other. purposesi These .blocks are internally wired and they have a number of plug sockets 2, 3. The upper sockets 2 are adapted to receive the plugs 4 on lead Wires 5 which are connected with any suit able light sockets in the house or service wiring of the building. The lower sockets 3 are adapted to receive plugs 6 of the wires 7 which lead to the individual heating units 8 by which the hair is heated for waving.

There is a base plate 9 secured to the blocks 1 and on its under side it has a centrally located handle 10 which may be grasped for the purpose of handling the device and this is especially convenient for .holding the apparatus up While hanging it upon an elevated support overhead. There is a hook 11 at the top of the blocks 1 which may be hooked onto a lighting fixture in an overhead position or upon the special bracket shown herein. I have shown a bracket 12 having parallel arms 13, 14 adapted to straddle the upper edge of a door 15 or other support likely to be convenient in any home,

and there is a thumbfscrew 16 for securing the bracket on the door. The horizontal arm 17 of the bracket extends outward from the door sufficiently to hold the apparatus away from the door, and it has a hook 12 on I its outer end to receive the hook 11.

There are a number of radial arms 18 pivotedat 19 to theplate 9 and the length of these arms will be determined more or less by the number of heaters to be included in the apparatus. These arms, extending radially from the plate 9 can swing on their pivots 19 in one direction to a horizontal or nearly horizontal line as shown in Figure 1, the plate 9 acting as a stop to limit the swing in this direction. The arms 18 may swing upwardly or toward the blocks therefore forms a ring around the outer exv I have shown another chain 22 forming a smaller tremities of the several arms 18.

ring than the chain 20 and therefore it is connected with the arms 18 nearer their pivots. I prefer to attach this chain to each arm 18 with a screw 23 or in any other manner, in order that this chain will always remain the same length between adjacent arms. I have shown a third chain 24 forming a ring and attached to the arms 18 at points nearer to the pivots 19 than the chain 22.

The heaters 8, which are here shown as of the tubular, electrical type, the construction of which is known and requires no special description, are each connected on the ends of the feed wires 25. The feed wires 25 for two separate heaters are shown brought together in a coupling member 26 where the wires are so connected as to place two adjacent heaters in series. The wires 7 extending from the coupling member 26 have the plugs 6 on the other end which plugs into one of the sockets 3 in the blocks 1. For each set of wires 7 there is a supporting or hanging device, here shown as an automatic reel 28 connected with the coupling member 26 and having a tape 29 which is automatically wound within the reel. This reel may be one of the automatic measuring tape reels which wind up by spring action. The end of the tape 29 is connected with one end of a coiled spring 30 the other end of the spring being supplied with a hook 31 which can be hooked over any one of the several chains 20, 22, 24:.

When the device is set up for use,the hook 11 is placed on the hook 12 of the bracket or it may be hooked onto an ordinary lighting fixture in an overhead position. The several arms 18 extend out radially from the plate 9 in horizontal or nearly horizontal position and the several chains 20, 22, 24 form concentric rings connecting the several arms. The person whose hair is to be waved is seatedbelow the fixture and the heaters will of course be used at various positions around the head to wave individual locks of hair. The heaters may. be supported in various positions to suit their'positions of use on the head by simply placing the hooks 31 at any convenient position around the circle and at any desired distance from the center, upon any one of the several chains 20, 22, 24. The heaters may be raised or lowered by manipulating the reels 28 to let out or take up the tapes 29. The apparatus in this condition serves every purpose of the rigid or non-portable type of apparatus. Any number of heaters may be used provided sufiicient sockets are provided to plug in the connecting wires 7.

When the apparatus is to be collapsed it is simply lifted ofi the hook 12 andinverted and in case the arms 18 do not immediately fold in by gravity a pull on any part of the chain 20 will cause it to draw in the arms 19; When the several arms are folded up as shown in Figure 3 the whole device may be placed in a satchel or bag and it maybe Earned conveniently in the compact condiion.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A device of the ,class.. described comprising a frame havinga plurality of-swinging arms pivoted to said frame and adapted to fold into compact form near said frame means for limiting the outward swing of said arms, and electric heating members adapted to be supported by said arms.

2. A device of the class described comprising a frame having electric socket members, swinging arms pivoted to said frame and adapted to fold into compact form near said frame, means for limiting the outward swing of said arms whereby they will form an extended support, and electric heating members connected with said socket members by flexible connections, and adaptedto be supported by said arms. 4

3. A device of the class described comprising a frame having a plurality of radially v arranged arms pivoted thereto and adapted to foldinto compact-formnear said frame, means for limiting the outward swing of said arms for the purpose set forth, and

members adaptedto be supported by said.

arms.

4. A device of the class described comprising a framechaving a. pluralityof radially disposed arms pivoted thereto and means for limiting the outward swing. of said;

arms, said arms beingadapted'to fold up close to said frame'when the, device is inverted and to swing outwardlyin extended position against said-stopping meanswhen the device is upright, and heating membersv adapted to be supported by. said arms.

5. A device. of the class described. comprising a frame having a plurality, of radially disposed arms pivoted thereto and means for limiting the outward swing. of

said arms whereby they will. form anlextended support, said arms being adaptedto fold into compact form near said; frame, flexible connecting members between said arms, and

heaters adapted to be supported on said flexible connecting 'members.

and heaters adapted. tobe supported bysaid arms.

7. A device/of the class described comprising a frame, a plurality of radially disposed arms. pivoted; thereto and. adapted to fold into compact form in. relation. to said frame or. to. project radially? outwardly therefrom, flexible members forming. rings connecting said arms, heaters. adapted: to be hung from said flexible. connections, and a 5 posed arms pivoted thereto and adapted to fold into compact form in relation to said frame or to project radially outwardly therefrom, flexible members forming rings connecting said arms at different distances 10 from the frame, and heaters adapted to be hung from said flexible connections.

9. A device of the class described comprising a frame having a hook at the upper portion, a handle underneath, and a plurality of arms pivoted to said frame and adapted to fold into compact relation to said frame when inverted and to project radially outward therefrom, flexible members connecting said arms, and heaters adapted to be su ported on said flexible connections.

igned at the city, county and State of New York, this 27th day of August, 1923.

FRANQOIS RENE MARCEL. 

